Bottom posting v top posting

[Florian Gamböck]

On 2018-05-13 09:22, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:44:49PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> The key, I've learned, is to teach them about bottom-posting. I have 
>> occassionally used bottom-posting with contacts without warning, and 
>> that has led to some confusion. I now try to remember to put "see my 
>> responses in-line below" as the first line of the message.
>>
> Yes, I add a line like that sometimes if it's long.  However the other 
> thing to do is to trim/snip heavily so you really do only leave the 
> required context.

To further avoid confusion I make sure to always insert one blank, 
unquoted line between the quote and my reply. So even if someone uses a 
client that HTML formats blockquotes with vertical lines on the left, 
there is always the indicator in form of a vertical gap so my reply will 
not easily being overlooked.

-- 
Flo